Foundation Models Expand into Biology, Robotics and Scientific Discovery

TranscriptFormer reportedly trained on 112 million cells across 12 species, while PhysBrain 1.5 proposes an open 8B physical foundation model evaluated across 28 benchmarks. HardFlow adds deployment-time hard-constraint enforcement for robotics, control, and vision, but these advances remain constrained by incomplete methodology, company or researcher-reported results, and limited real-world validation.